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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Sean Michael Quinlan, Duvall, WA (US);
Haniff Somani, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Sanjiv Maurya, Fremont, CA (US);
Peter Barker, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Siavash James Joorabchian Hawkins, Maidenhead, GB;
BlackBerry Limited, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for controlling access to application data associated with an application configured on a computing device. The method comprises: storing data comprising, for each of a plurality of access levels associated with the application, first data indicative of a combination of one or more credentials associated with the respective access level and an access level key corresponding to the respective access level, the access level key being encrypted by the combination of one or more credentials associated with the respective access level; determining, based on the first data, an access level in the plurality of access levels corresponding to a combination of one or more credentials available to the application; decrypting the access level key in the stored data corresponding to the determined access level; and providing access to encrypted application data associated with the application and corresponding to the determined access level.